By Johannes Bolland, Jean de Tollenaer and others. Each book is followed by Exercitatio poetica (Latin verse, some Greek, Hebrew) by Sidronius de Hossche, Jacques van de Walle and others. See Backer-Sommervogel

Engraved t.p. after Philip Fruytiers and emblematic ill. by Cornelis Galle. Woodcut printer's device with compasses at end, signed C.I. Woodcut tail-pieces, initials

Signatures: * A-6G. Last leaf blank

Prolegomena de anno saeculari -- Liber I. Societas nascens -- Liber II. Societas crescens -- Liber III. Societas agens -- Liber IV. Societas patiens -- Liber V. Societas honorata -- Liber VI. Societas Flandro-Belgica -- Index rerum memorabilium

Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries

Backer-Sommervogel

Ill. on p. 571 & 574 not cancels, as in some copies. See Landwehr

Binding: old calfskin, rebacked. Boards gilt tooled with rolls along margins & center lozenge built up with small tools. Turn-ins gilt tooled. Edges red

Bookplate dated 1788 of Charles Talbot (1753-1827), 16th earl of Shrewsbury. Printed entry from bookseller's catalog affixed to back flyleaf, annotated: W. Brown, 124 High Holborn, Dec. 1859

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